Polisario opponent arrested in Tindouf 10/30/2008
A member of a group of Polisario dissidents, known as "Polisario-Khatt Achahid" (line of the martyr), was arrested in Tindouf (southwestern Algeria) by the polisario's militias, Sahrawi activists in Spain said on Wednesday. Slouh Mohamed Salem, from Ait Ousse tribe, was arrested Sunday by the militiamen of the polisario and was handed over to the Algerian military security that transferred him to a secret location.
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No Sahara settlement is possible outside of a regional, consensual, political solution, FM 10/29/2008
Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri said on Tuesday that no settlement of the Sahara issue is possible outside of a regional, consensual, and political solution in the strict respect for Morocco's territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
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Autonomy proposal is the future of the Sahara peoples (MEP) 10/29/2008
The Moroccan autonomy proposal in the southern provinces "represents the future for the peoples of the Sahara," said Tuesday in Rabat, the chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group Europe Morocco, Mr. Philippe Morillon. Speaking after an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mr. Taib Fassi Fihri, the MEP, stated that "with globalization, the future is in the union, not independence".
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King seeks compromise solution to Sahara issue, former US ambassador 10/28/2008
King Mohammed VI of Morocco is seeking a solution to the Sahara dispute based on common ground rather than conflict, former assistant secretary of state for Near East and South Asia affairs, Frederick Vreeland, underlined on Sunday.
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Washington: Moroccan autonomy plan most substantial 10/24/2008
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Welch, said, here Thursday, that his country hopes for continuing the political process to find a solution to the Sahara dispute.
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